What’s your problem? That check we’re talking about now was a whopping 1100 percent increase!

The Bradford County farmer said his royalty payment from Chesapeake in June was 10 cents.

Ya think?

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is investigating whether Chesapeake Energy is complying with the state’s law on minimum royalty payments.

Yup, it’s time to run for re-election!

One of the elected officials asking Attorney General Kane to investigate the widespread complaints about Chesapeake’s way of paying gas royalties was none other than Pa.’s shale-development cheerleader-in-chief, Gov. Tom Corbett.

Timothy A. Rowbottom was charged with receiving stolen property after police searched his property and found an eight-foot painted chicken that had been stolen from in front of a local business more than two years ago.

Michael Mann is an internationally-recognized climate researcher with a Ph.D who publishes regularly in peer reviewed journals.

CBS21’s website describes Russell as “a well-traveled broadcaster” whose credentials include membership in the American Meteorological Society, a group whose website says it is an “inclusive society” that welcomes “weather enthusiasts.”

Matt Zencey is Deputy Opinion Editor of PennLive and The Patriot-News. Email mzencey@pennlive.com and on Twitter @MattZencey.